Cotton-wadding.



T. G. PADDAGK.

OOTTON WADDING.

APPLICATION FILED 11.20, 1909.

Patented Aug. 30, 1910.

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. Invnor W7 1, we & .flo my m i nesa 86 TRUMAN G. PADDAOK, OF WYOMING, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO THE STEARNS AND FOSTER COMPANY, OF CINCINNATI, OHIO, A CORPORATION OF OHIO.

COTTON-WADDING.

eas est.

Speciflcationof Letters Patent.

Application filed March 20, 1909. Serial No. 484,699.

To all whom it may concern:

Be-it known that I, TRUMAN G. PADDAcK, a citizen of the United States, residing in the village of Wyoming, county of Hamilton, and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Gotton-Wadding, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification.

Heretofore cotton wadding has been largely manufactured by forming a web of the fibrous material on carding and garneting machines, and then subjecting the web to a coating of suitable sizing material usually applied to both sides of the web which, when dried, gives a finished Surface thereto. This cotton wadding is used very largely for lining and filling material in the arts, and as heretofore manufactured, the wadding is furnished in webs from to inches in width, and rolled in rolls many yards in length.

It is frequently necessary in making use of the material, to employ narrow ;strips, and while the fabric is very readil torn and separated, it is soloosely forme that the line of separation into strips is apt to be very uneven, and to obtain the strips it is necessary to unroll the web and sever the same with a sharp cutting instrument, a

matter of considerable time and annoyance.-

It is the object of my invention to obviate these difficulties by supplying cotton wadding in such condition that even while in the roll, it can be readily and easily divided into any desired width of I strips, and also so that it may be folded into narrow strips without dividing.

The essential feature of my improved wadded fabric consists in providing narrow strips lengthwise of the fabric, and of such distance apart as may be desired, in which the coats of sizing provided for both surfaces of the fabric are prevented from coming in contact with the web in continuous lengths, so that when the fabric is completely manufactured and rolled into rolls the web will be provided with unsized narrow strips lengthwise in parallel lines. In this way the user can readily and easily divide the entire roll into strips, without unwinding, without cutting, by simply breaking the roll into strips as desired.

In the drawings Figure 1 is a perspective view somewhat diagrammatic in form, of the apparatus for manufacturing my improved wadding. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of theroll of finished wadding. Fig. 3' is a perspective view of a portion of the web folded to form a convenient package for upbolstering.

1 represents the web of cotton as it comes from the carding or garneting machines, and thence it is fed to the sizing roller 2, which is slowly rotated in the trough 3, containing suitable sizing material, and a coat of sizing applied to one surface of the web.

In order to form parallel unsized strips in the direction of the length of the sheet of wadding, means are provided to prevent the distribution of the sizing over the entire surface of the sheet. Any convenient devices may be employed for this purpose, but I prefer to use a fixed bar 5 which is mounted in close proximity to the sizing .roll, and in which holes are bored the desired distance apart, in which the rope ends 4'are secured so that the ends of the rope will bear on the sizing roll and remove the size so that narrow parallel bands 6, 6 are left unsized on v to support the rope ends at difi'erent distances apart so that the webbing may be furnished with any desired arrangement of unsized strips to suit the various requirements of the purchaser. The Web is then passed through the drying oven and thence to a second sizing roller 8 provided with a trough 9 and with a similarly arranged bar 11 provided with rope ends 10 to bear against the sizing roller so that when the sizing is distributed to the opposite surface of the web the unsized strips or bands 12, 12 will correspond with the unsized strips or hands 6, 6 on the opposite surface. The web is then passed back through the drying oyen and thence itis wound u in the finishing roll 13. With the materia furnished in this way with unsized strips to suit the requirements, any desired width of strips can be readily and easily broken oifof the roll without unwinding or cutting.

When it is desired to use the materialfor upholstering purposes for narrow cushions and the like, the strips are formed of varying widths so that when any suitable length of webbin is separated from the roll, the web may %e folded in pyramidal shape in cross section as illustrated in Fig. 3, in which 14, 14 represents the strips as folded to form such package.

Having thus described my invention what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is:

1. A continuous web of carded or garneted fibrous material, with sized surface, and provided with parallel unsized strips, the web being so formed that the unsized strips will coincide when rolled or folded on themselves to form a bolt, thereby providing, through 'the thickness of the bolt, sections of unsized material, substantially as and for the purpose described.

2. A continuous webv of carded or garneted fibrous material, with sized surfaces, and provided with parallel unsized strips on opposite sides corresponding in position and extending in the direction of the length of the web, being so formed that the unsized strips will coincide when rolled or folded on themselves to form a bolt thereby providing, through the thickness of the bolt, section of unsized material, substantially as and for the pur ose described.

a T UMAN Gr. PADDAOK.

Witnesses:

0. N. KAUFMAN, H. E.'ROLEF. 

